Tibet is on Holiday I should slow down. I should adventure, hitch hike, camp in the countryside, wander out of town and off the maps for a while. I've merged onto the fast lane, the tourist trail, zipping along, too fast to take the off ramps. South of Dunhuang I spy the sand dunes rearing up over the city's outskirts, an ominous chain of wondrous shifting sculptures. A fence erected around their base, however, funnels would be adventurists through a ticket booth. Since the Cultural Revolution things have changed. The CCP has seen the benefits of tourism and has reconstructed history, temples, homes of famed saints, reknowned artists, writers, painters. The country can be considered a dot to dot of scenic and cultural snapshots, postcards to be collected, viewpoints to be sought out. But where is
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